Richard,

A simple test on your side is to do a manual ftp to the area that is 
having issues.  If that does not work,  then try farthur up the tree.

The site was off the network for a brief period this morning.

-Connie Sieh
On 
Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Richard S Holmes wrote:

> Trying yesterday to do a yum update, it stopped midway through
> downloading headers and I had to force quit.
> 
> Since then when I try to do an update I get
> 
> $ sudo yum update
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: DAG rpms
> retrygrab() failed for:
>  
> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/extra/dag/redhat/el3/en/i386/dag/headers/header.info
>   Executing failover method
> failover: out of servers to try
> Error getting file
> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/extra/dag/redhat/el3/en/i386/dag/headers/header.info
> [Errno 4] IOError: [Errno ftp error] (110, 'Connection timed out')
> 
> Is there a problem on the scientificlinux.org end, or is there something
> screwed up on my end?
> 
> - Rich Holmes
>